Watch The 'Red 2' Teaser
by Shannon Keirnan
“They’re coming. I can feel it.”
The teaser trailer for “Red 2” has been released, and it promises plenty of explosions, chase scenes, and geriatric jokes.
In the teaser, crazy Marvin Boggs returns, played by John Malkovich, to beg Bruce Willis’ character, Frank Moses, to come back to the business.
Whether Moses likes it or not, he's going to have to, because he gets a helpful call from old friend and partner Victoria, played by Helen Mirren, who informs him that MI-6 has contacted her to kill him. Apparently, Moses’ stints in the previous “Red” have elevated him to number one on Interpol’s most wanted list. Oops.
If you missed the original, it’s a surprisingly amusing romp that follows a group of ex-CIA agents labeled “Retired Extremely Dangerous” (R.E.D.) as sweet Frank Moses gets a hit placed on him that puts draws his love interest, Sarah, into danger as well.
Summit Entertainment announced that “Red 2” “will reunite the team of retired CIA operatives with some new friends as they use their 'old-school style' to take on new enemies in Europe."
“Please tell me that’s a stick of dynamite in your pocket,” Moses quips as he and Boggs cower from the hail of gunfire raining down from a hired assassin.
The movie also brings back Mary-Louise Parker as the indomitable Sarah Ross, as well as throwing in new castmembers mouthy Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lee Byung-hun, Brian Cox, Neal McDonough, and Anthony Hopkins.
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" actor David Thewlis also joins the flick as “The Frog,” who apparently garnered his nickname by poisoning the water supply at the Kremlin with a hapless Amazonian amphibian.
The movie will be hitting theaters August of 2013.